Just in Stands at 1,317 ... we're on target to surpass the usual 12,000 deaths by guns by end of year ... How Many People Have Been Killed by Guns Since Newtown ? http://www.slate.com/articles/news_..._death_since_newtown_sandy_hook_shooting.html Slate partners with @GunDeaths for an interactive, crowdsourced tally of the toll firearms have taken since Dec. 14. The answer to the simple question in that headline is surprisingly hard to come by. So Slate and the Twitter feed @GunDeaths are collecting data for our crowdsourced interactive. This data is necessarily incomplete. But the more people who are paying attention, the better the data will be. You can help us draw a more complete picture of gun violence in America. If you know about a gun death in your community that isnt represented here, please tweet @GunDeaths with a citation. (If youre not on Twitter, you can email slatedata@gmail.com.) And if youd like to use this data yourself for your own projects, its open. You can download it via link inside. Daily death-count and by city & state inside
and the U.S. population is 315,234,501.. go to time 2:00 on video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I7WBtP8Qlhc [video=youtube;I7WBtP8Qlhc]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I7WBtP8Qlhc[/video]
A dishonest use of statistic to support a political agenda. There is over 30,000 deaths by firearms a year. The 12,000 number is closer to the number of homicides. The quote from Mark Twain that he said come from a british PM. Best desribes these numbers. "lies, (*)(*)(*)(*)ed lies, and statistics"
I didn't know this ... let's consider this homicide deaths then ... feel free to interactive with this thread with total U.S. gun deaths throughout the year ...
More than 1,000 people dead from gun violence in just over a month, and people think this is acceptable? Seriously, its not acceptable, and its about time you admitted you have a problem with gun violence in your country!
From what I saw of the link it represented "gun deaths" not homicide. You can not get accurate data from tweeter feeds. Lots of people die from guns every year. The majority are suicides even then, less than 1% of even homicides come from the targets of any legislation to reduce violence. Nothing being discussed will reduce these numbers. They seek to reduce rights not violence. If they wanted to reduce violence they would address the war on drugs, income inequality, unemployment, and our pathetic public education system. The current response is based on emotion to make people feel like something is being done. When it really isn't. You can not get accurate real time data, it takes at least a year before the actual numbers and causes are put out. I do not doubt that many have died, if anything it is a average amount. People are only paying attention now because upper class white children died. The poor and minorities have been dying at this rate for years. The rate has been dropping since the early 90's
One thing is for certain ... winggunnuts are gonna call you out for your stipulation of 30,000 gun-deaths a year ... you betcha ... wink.
Facts are facts, I might make mistakes, but will not use dishonesty to win a debate. This link provides the information given to congress in November. It has lots of useful data charts on homicide and gun deaths are on pages 14-16. It contains 118 pages of information. http://www.fas.org/sgp/crs/misc/RL32842.pdf
Yeah, I know this is an old question, but it is one that our friends on the Left seem to be able to answer. How will restricting the rights of law abiding citizens stop people who don't care about the law in the first place? The government tried to ban alcohol, it failed. the government has tried to ban drugs, it hasn't worked. And we are supposed to believe that banning certain weapons and magazines is going to reduce crime?
The U.S. has a violence rate of 466 crimes per 100,000 residents. As anyone can clearly see European countries that severely limit gun ownership have a much higher violent crime rate than the U.S. The UK has 4.3 times the violent crime rate than the U.S. and Austria has 3.5 the violent crime rate than the U.S. So what conclusion do you draw from the violent crime rates in countries with severe gun restrictions being so very much higher than in the U.S.?
Since most of them are Obama voters who will now have to vote from the afterlife it a loss that I can learn to live with.
From reading this OP, I hope its not implying that people never started dying from gunshots before Sandy Hook, because that would be bad.
When have progressives ever learned from history? I mean look at where they're going with the economy...straight up economic fascism....Mussolini's mixture of Marxism and "planned" capitalism.
I thoroughly enjoy reading how the number of gun deaths after Sandy Hook somehow are more important than the gun deaths before Sandy Hook, especially in inner cities and such. Because trying to reduce gun violence is suddenly now an issue, nevermind all of the people who die everyday before Sandy Hook, before Aurora, before VTech, before Columbine, and so on.
so does this site verify these supposed deaths or can anyone just go on there and inflate the numbers, I am tempted to find out and see if I can get it to 100K by the end of February
